This is the joint website of Women Against Rape and Black Women's Rape Action Project. Both organisations are based on self-help and provide support, legal information and advocacy. We campaign for justice and protection for all women and girls, including asylum seekers, who have suffered sexual, domestic and/or racist violence.

WAR was founded in 1976. It has won changes in the law, such as making rape in marriage a crime, set legal precedents and achieved compensation for many women. BWRAP was founded in 1991. It focuses on getting justice for women of colour, bringing out the particular discrimination they face. It has prevented the deportation of many rape survivors. Both organisations are multiracial.

Compensation (character & conduct campaign)

This website is no longer being updated - please visit instead http://againstrape.net

If you have suffered rape or assault, like any other victim of crime, it is your right to apply to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) for compensation for your injuries and to help with your recovery. Throughout the legal process our sexual and medical histories are often used to humiliate, demean and dismiss us. Our 'character and conduct' can similarly be used to deny us compensation by the CICA, thus discriminating against rape survivors who may have unrelated convictions for prostitution, shop-lifting or possession of cannabis. We have had to challenge the CICA for refusing or reducing awards on these grounds, and we are pressing for their discretion to make such judgements to be curtailed.

If you have been denied compensation and/or want to support this campaign, contact us.